Cinema and body (in consumer society begining from 1980 until now the presentation of the body in the cinema)

Body? firstly became a significant research topic in sociology in the early 1980s.Highly popular films, in which ?body? plays a considerable role, such as ?Blade Runner?,?Terminator?, ?Robocop?, ?Body Heat? in the same years; ?Basic Instict?, ?Boxing Helena?,?Matrix?, ?eXistenZ?, ?S1m0ne?, ?Silence of the Lambs?,?Se7en?, ?Fight Club? in the lateryears; and contemporary The Passion of the Christ? were shot. In the context of ConsumerSociety, there is a perfect correspondance between the ?body? which is a topic in sociologyand the ?body? which has been presented in the cinema. Although there are qualitativedifferences in terms of both the cinematographic narration and the content between the filmswe?re mentioning and similar ones, the most common point is that ?body? which is a productof Consumer Society has been presented in different ways. Therefore, we have the opportunityto go through the historical data of ?body? in the West, and as a result of this to compare the?body? that is related to Consumer Society and the ?body? that is assumed as its ancestors.Since the topic being studied in this thesis is the ?body? in the context of Consumer Society,we limit the research field to the western societies. The main reason for this is that theConsumer Society is a phenomenon inclusive to the Western societies. And the ?body? that hasbeen presented via cinema was created by the Consumer Society itself, so it has been infunction and mediation of the Consumer Society. The diverse figural presentation of the?body? in the cinema does not vary this conclusion. Consequently, the ?body? we?re studyingin the context of Consumer Society in the cinema is mostly being generated by the system andthus serves the interests of the system.